Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/04/06 09:29

MikeyMuchos wrote:

> some web pages saved locally into a directory will at some later date
> disappear leaving only an empty "*_files" folder.

When Chuck Norris saves web pages, they stay saved.

What are you using to store yours? Have you considered upgrading to
Chuck Norris?
If you don't, you may be only seconds away from a fatal downloading
experience.


Seriously, "saved" web pages are those that are deliberately exported
from some web user agent or other and they're placed into the
filesystem where nothing else should ever touch them. If you're
stretching the meaning of "saved" to mean "I noticed my browser was
already caching them somewhere automatically" then this just isn't
reliable. The browser doesn't know you've also taken an interest in
them, so naturally it purges them after time because _it_ has finished
with them.

If you store them under some "temp" directory, then all bets are off.
Put them somewhere you understand, where _you_ know where they are.

I don't know what a "System Restore" is, but it sounds like some
ghastly Windows feeature for updating to a fresh set of bugs. If
they're involved, anything could happen. Nothing under those Windows
"My Directory" paths can be trusted, because Windows is too fond of
changing your identity and moving you to a whole clean new set. If you
start looking from "C:\Documents and Settings\" though, you might find
they're still there under another account name.

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